PRIMARY LEVEL

Huntingdon Primary School

191 Cox Street

Huntingdon, TN 38344

(731) 986-3091

www.huntingdonschools.org

Project Title: Huntingdon Primary School Energy Stars

Project Adviser: Connie Bond

Student Directors: Macon Bullock and Savannah Britt

The Wiser Miser Energy Team consisted of 11 third grade students. We enjoyed exploring a variety of energy sources, teaching others about energy conservation, and learning to be leaders in our school and community. We are the Huntingdon Primary School’s Energy Stars!

We all worked hard and had a fun and educational year. We went on five energy related tours, held after school meetings, learned work and environmental ethics and participated in NEED activities. Our team raised over $3,500 with projects including collecting and recycling aluminum cans, paper, plastic, cardboard, used cell phones, and ink and laser jet cartridges. We donated money to PROJECT HELP, which provides help to needy families with their electric bill. We will also be purchasing an energy efficient water heater and CFL bulbs valued at over $450 for the Habitat House to be built in May 2007.

Our team received $500 in grant money and a matching funds grant from Huntingdon Recycling Center. We distributed 24 CFL bulbs, held 12 energy-related activities in the school and community, had four energy-related speakers at our school, and participated in the ENERGY STAR® “Change a Light, Change the World” campaign.

 

Stuart R. Paddock Elementary School

225 West Washington Court

Palatine, IL 60067

(847) 963-5836

Project Title: Saving Energy in 2007

Project Adviser: Kathleen Cochrane

Student Directors: Will Helgren, Samantha Enault and Jason Doering

This year we had many new ideas, and we also used some of last year’s projects. We had one goal, to teach other kids and adults about saving energy. Our projects included Electricity Day, when we made games to teach classes about electricity and saving energy. We produced a play called Harry Spotter and the Chamber of Windy Myths. We practiced it and filmed it for the morning TV announcements. We also held a Recycled Book Collection to save old books and send them to a nearby orphanage.

Our Energy Police reminded students and teachers to turn off lights when no one was in the room. We also made door hangers as a reminder and passed them out to classrooms and the school neighborhood. We recycled gym shoes and six-pack rings. Our Building Buddies used songs and recycling games to help teach kids and teachers about saving energy.

We planned a huge Earth Day celebration for April 23, where we sold CFL light bulbs, showed An Inconvenient Truth, gave away trees, played energy games and had people make a pledge to Save-a-Gallon of gasoline.

We saved a lot of energy and had a lot of fun.

ELEMENTARY LEVEL

Three Rivers Middle School

8575 Bridgetown Road

Cleves, OH 45002

(513) 467-3500

www.threeriversschools.org

Project Title: Three Rivers Middle School Energy Club

Project Advisers: Tina Cole and Patti Detmer

Student Directors: Emily Pohlmeyer, Sarah Russo, Haley Kolb, Sarah Buzek, Tamara Creek, Kayla Ryan and Olivia Pohlmann

Our Energy Club this year was very productive. We did news program on our school’s Video Clipboard. Professor Know-It-All taught an energy lesson for the audience. We had a weekly bumper stumper with prizes. We prepared a script and picked a new professor each week.

We also initiated a recycling program at our school. We collected and recycled aluminum cans and plastic bottles. We also put up recycling tips on our school’s marquis. The Energy Club also put tips on two bulletin boards in our school cafeteria above where we collect our cans.

This year we held an Energy Carnival. All the fifth graders participated and had a great time. The teams that scored the most points received a prize for their accomplishments. We went to the Miami Fort Power Plant in North Bend, Ohio. The Energy Club took a tour and learned a lot about turbines, coal and electricity.

The Energy Club also had the school participate in a bookmark contest. We had a winner from each grade—fifth through eighth.

We printed little light bulbs from the computer and put energy tips on them. We put them all around the school. The Energy Club created posters that we put up on restaurants bulletin boards. One of the people in the Energy Club also handed out some flyers around her street talking about our recycling program at school.

The Energy Club this year did something really special—we made our own website. We have received a couple of emails from people who think what we have been doing so far is a great thing and they want us to keep up the good work.

Overall, our group worked very hard on our projects and scrapbook. In the end, it was all worthwhile and we hope that in the future our world will be a better place.

 

JUNIOR LEVEL

St. Isidore School

3821 20th Street

Columbus, NE 68601

(402) 564-2604

Project Title: St. Isidore NEED Group

Project Adviser: Mary Lou Green

Student Directors: Sam Mancuso, Shayla Wieser, Katelyn Baumgart and Allison Smith

The special goal of this year’s NEED group was to increase the use of CFLs within our area. On the ENERGY STAR® “Change a Light” Day on October 4, 2006, we collected hundreds of Pledges at Hy-Vee and Wal-Mart, and 100 percent of our school families and staff promised to use energy efficient light bulbs. A NEED member visited the state capital in Lincoln and, with our State Senator, Arnie Stuthman, secured a promise from the custodial staff that as light bulbs burned out, they would replace them with CFLs. NEED members collected many more pledges at Behlen Manufacturing Plant and Nebraska Public Power Company. Even place mats were used to secure pledges at the Shrimp Peel held at the New World Inn for five hundred patrons. At this time, we have registered approximately 1,700 pledges.

As an intermediate grade, we used numerous NEED materials as we taught younger students energy lessons. We promoted NEED in the high school, staged NEED plays, organized the Energy Carnival, and prepared for an Energy Fair. Senator Stuthman, radio blurbs, local newspaper articles and Keep America Beautiful have all recognized the importance of our NEED program. It has been a great year in NEED.

SENIOR LEVEL

Robert A. Millikan High School

2800 Snowden Avenue

Long Beach, CA 90815

(562) 425-7441

www.millikanhigh.com

Project Title: Teaching and Racing

Project Adviser: Woody Williams

Student Directors: Mary Day, Claire Pelonis, Michael Diaz, Blake Brewster, Brooke Bemowski and Emma Pelonis

Knowing how important energy is to our health, safety, economy and environment, we dedicated ourselves to educating others about wise energy choices. We continued to learn all we could about energy. We improved our energy lessons with hands-on activities, developed more lessons and taught those lessons to all interested parties, especially elementary students. We promoted energy conservation with a solar array on our science building and formed partnerships with community organizations.

We are high performing students who volunteered our time to teach energy lessons with the aid of our teacher/coach and other mentors from the community. We prepared the following energy lessons and tried them out on students and adults with success: energy forms and transformations, electricity, wind power, solar power, energy conservation in the home and fuel cells. Each lesson was presented for 45-60 minutes in elementary classrooms. The lessons included a Power Point presentation, hands-on activities and evaluations. Within the first day of the promotion flyer being sent out, we filled all 66 available teaching times.

To highlight solar energy, we entered the Solar Cup 2007, competing with 43 other high schools in southern California. This program involved about 200 hours of research, testing and competing. The Long Beach Water Department and the Metropolitan Water District sponsored us in the event, giving us $3,000 and technical support.

We also worked on saving energy with the Long Beach Method of Desalination of sea water to drinking water.